CALMLY Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

calmly

adverb

Definition of calmly

as in coolly

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Recent Examples of calmly The rescue's latest update shows just how far the once-elusive mustang has come — with Outlaw calmly wearing a saddle for the first time. — Cbs Baltimore, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 While four Brewers pitchers combined on a three-hitter and the defense made nearly every big play, Milwaukee’s lineup calmly worked counts, pounded 10 hits through the Padres’ defense and manufactured enough runs to head home smiling. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 The play is a gently unfolding, calmly delivered tale of the decades of horrors endured by a real-life person named Eddie Jaku. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026 The logistics of trackings and killings are calmly and methodically laid out. — Justin Chang, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 If outrage, media attention and hostile confrontation are part of the payoff, responding calmly and substantively — or not at all — can make the spectacle far less consequential. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2026 Let’s focus on what the priorities are and work together calmly and cooperatively to make that happen, which is to focus on the people that, where there’s a broad consensus, should be removed from the country. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026 The department recommends speaking calmly and firmly rather than running away. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Finally, as if to ward off any lingering party-going spirits, hotel security calmly ushered everyone back out into the witching hour. — Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for calmly

Adverb

To do the job, Lowen must temporarily move into the author’s home, a coolly lavish modern house in rural Vermont, where Verity’s many boxes of files are stored—and where, of course, Jeremy also lives.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Murray reacted coolly as the ice water cascaded over him, standing up and clapping his hands while walking it off.

— Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of coolly

Adverb

On the other side of Via Solari, a handful of policemen gathered around dozens of demonstrators, who ardently—but peacefully—chanted for entirely different reasons.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
His death was announced GWAR bass player Casey Orr, who said Varga, who during his time with the band sometimes played the character Sexicutioner, died peacefully with wife Bambi at his side.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of peacefully

Adverb

Our low, bargelike vessel drifts serenely, unhurriedly along the brown river.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
Nestled serenely in northern South Dakota on Native American land and surrounded by livestock and crops as far as the eye can see, Timber Lake is a ranching community with two pumps serving regular gas and no stoplights.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of serenely

Adverb

That’s a pretty evocative setting for a film, with the perpetual drone and roar of fighter jets overhead and an air of constricting menace pervading what should otherwise be placidly idle summer hours.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
The waters of a continent – west from the Rockies and east from the Appalachians – pour into it, sometimes violently, sometimes placidly.

— Alfredo Sosa, Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2026